Mohammed El-Kurd

Because in Arabic I can, in Arabic I can philosophize, I can talk about violence, and I can talk about my complicated relationship with violence, or like my complicated... I can complicate and nuance and give things nuance, but in English people still do not believe we are under occupation, even though it is an internationally recognized fact that is broadcasted 24-7 through the world's most watched screens.

So we're stuck in a practice of providing facts and figures, and actually this happened, and this person did this, and according to international law, and blah, blah, blah. So we're stuck in this because the basic truths about our own existence are denied. That we don't even have the luxury of evolving our writing beyond it, or at least evolving my writing beyond it.

So we're stuck in a practice of providing facts and figures, and actually this happened, and this person did this, and according to international law, and blah, blah, blah. So we're stuck in this because the basic truths about our own existence are denied. That we don't even have the luxury of evolving our writing beyond it, or at least evolving my writing beyond it.

So we're stuck in a practice of providing facts and figures, and actually this happened, and this person did this, and according to international law, and blah, blah, blah. So we're stuck in this because the basic truths about our own existence are denied. That we don't even have the luxury of evolving our writing beyond it, or at least evolving my writing beyond it.

And this is what I'm trying to do with this new book.

And this is what I'm trying to do with this new book.

And this is what I'm trying to do with this new book.

I wouldn't say activism. I would say journalism. Just making sure, disrupting the flow of the sentence to insert a statistic or insert... a historical fact that should be implied and should be a household name, but it's not. I can't just say the Nakba. I have to say the Nakba.

I wouldn't say activism. I would say journalism. Just making sure, disrupting the flow of the sentence to insert a statistic or insert... a historical fact that should be implied and should be a household name, but it's not. I can't just say the Nakba. I have to say the Nakba.

I wouldn't say activism. I would say journalism. Just making sure, disrupting the flow of the sentence to insert a statistic or insert... a historical fact that should be implied and should be a household name, but it's not. I can't just say the Nakba. I have to say the Nakba.

The 1948 near total destruction of Palestinian society at the hands of Zionist militias that later formed the Israeli military that now terrorizes us today. And there is like three-tier legal system, blah, blah, blah. I can't just say the Nakba. I have to give all of these explanations. And that's heartbreaking. And people are out to do better. People are out to do better. This is not...

The 1948 near total destruction of Palestinian society at the hands of Zionist militias that later formed the Israeli military that now terrorizes us today. And there is like three-tier legal system, blah, blah, blah. I can't just say the Nakba. I have to give all of these explanations. And that's heartbreaking. And people are out to do better. People are out to do better. This is not...

The 1948 near total destruction of Palestinian society at the hands of Zionist militias that later formed the Israeli military that now terrorizes us today. And there is like three-tier legal system, blah, blah, blah. I can't just say the Nakba. I have to give all of these explanations. And that's heartbreaking. And people are out to do better. People are out to do better. This is not...

It's not what my literature should be limited to. It's not what anybody's literature should be limited to. It's the job of news reporters to report the news. But a lot of the time they use looted language, they use passive voice, they obfuscate facts. And it's on the shoulders of us, the heavy carrying.

It's not what my literature should be limited to. It's not what anybody's literature should be limited to. It's the job of news reporters to report the news. But a lot of the time they use looted language, they use passive voice, they obfuscate facts. And it's on the shoulders of us, the heavy carrying.

It's not what my literature should be limited to. It's not what anybody's literature should be limited to. It's the job of news reporters to report the news. But a lot of the time they use looted language, they use passive voice, they obfuscate facts. And it's on the shoulders of us, the heavy carrying.

Terrible job. Horrible job. What's the... They don't do their job whatsoever.

Terrible job. Horrible job. What's the... They don't do their job whatsoever.

Terrible job. Horrible job. What's the... They don't do their job whatsoever.

Not mentioning that... a town is occupied when you're reporting about an occupied town. Not mentioning that a settlement is illegal or a settler is illegally present in a Palestinian village when you're reporting on them. Only quoting